Turkish poppy cake / Hașhaș Tatlisi
This is a traditional Turkish poppy seed cake made during Ramadan. There are various versions and this one is flour-free, for poppy lovers among you ... If you replace wheat semolina salt with corn grits salt, you will get a gluten-free cake, our Brankal tried it and I thank her heartily for that ...
Preparation steps
- First we cook the syrup / agda in a bowl of water, sugar, a little lemon juice. Bring to a boil for 2-3 minutes. Then remove from the heat and allow to cool.
- Prepare a bowl and mixer. You can use salt or a glass, and if you still like to weigh, I have written next to you in grams how much you need. First, beat the eggs with the sugar into a frothy mass. Add a little salt and vanilla sugar.
- Then add semolina salt and poppy salt to the mixture. Stir and finally add salt and oil. Whisk everything well with a mixer.
- Prepare a mold and line with baking paper. I have a 26 cm mold. You can also use any other smaller pan or smaller cube and cut the stake into cubes.
- Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 170 degrees for 40 minutes. When the cake is ready, take it out of the oven, poke holes in it with a toothpick and pour the syrup on top. So the cake is warm and the cold agda / syrup.
- While the cake is cooling, we mix the whipped cream, then mix the cheese and mileram and on several occasions slowly mix the whipped cream into the cream cheese.
- Apply cream cheese and icing on the cake. Leave the cake in the fridge to cool and the cream to set
- Cut the cooled cake as desired. It's still warm here with me, it wasn't in the fridge. Later, the cream squeezed nicely and cut much better :-)
Serving
With a cup of coffee or a cup of black Turkish tea. As for the cream, you can omit the icing and just mix the cream cheese with the mileram. It is not necessary to add sugar to the cream, because the biscuit is sweet enough due to the syrup and the sour taste in the cream completes this story so that the cake is light and refreshing ....